Beth Timmins
Broadcast Journalist at BBC
Reporter @BBCNews / @JSchofieldTrust fellow / Writing DPhil @StCrossCollege and tutoring @oxford_anthro + @school_of_arch (She/her)
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1 week ago |
bbc.com | Beth Timmins
Scientists in the high Arctic are lifting their labs into the air to avoid damage from melting permafrost. Ny-Ålesund in Norway's Arctic is the world's most northerly settlement. A team of scientists surrounded by glaciers, polars bears, walruses and arctic foxes call this hostile environment home while they're researching the Arctic's ice, ecosystems and atmosphere.
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Aug 6, 2024 |
bbc.com | Beth Timmins
As Tropical Storm Debby washes over the south-eastern US causing widespread power outages, a solution could come from New Orleans' model. Here, "community lighthouses" hope to offer an essential lifeline when the lights go out. On a Sunday in the Broadmoor neighbourhood of New Orleans, a church full of voices can be heard singing the hymn This Little Light of Mine. But letting it shine has now taken on a whole new meaning for residents in the city.
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Aug 9, 2023 |
bbc.co.uk | Beth Timmins
By Beth TimminsBusiness reporter, BBC NewsTwo major retailers of period pants are calling for them to be VAT-free in line with other sanitary products. Marks & Spencer and WUKA have been joined by politicians and environmental groups urging the government to act. Currently period pants, which are absorbent, washable and reusable, are classified as garments and VAT is levied at 20%. But other period products such as pads, tampons and reusable menstrual cups have been exempt since 2021.
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Aug 8, 2023 |
bbc.co.uk | Alex Kleiderman |Beth Timmins
By Alex Kleiderman & Beth TimminsBBC NewsUK Scouts evacuated from an international event in South Korea after extreme weather and allegations of poor organisation "are doing the best they can with the situation they can". The World Scout Jamboree ended prematurely on Monday because of an incoming tropical storm - resulting in thousands of Scouts from 155 nations being evacuated. Problems caused by an intense heatwave had already seen the visitors from the UK, US and Singapore leave the camp.
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Apr 7, 2023 |
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Beth Timmins
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Hurricane blackouts: New Orleans' 'lighthouse' solution to keep the power on through floods and high winds https://t.co/XYMOrukMiZ via @BBC_Future
Thanks to Professor @robverchick, @LouisianaCPRA and @Pointe_Au_Chien for telling me more about the project to revert the Mississippi river to its land-making pathways: https://t.co/hBDjFtki48
RT @AnthroClack: Wonderful to see Doug Farthing’s evocative painting, ‘Harmony and Vulnerability’ (142x115cm; oil on canvas) up at @SPC_Oxf…